Quotes About Money

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, didn't have a lot of money and getting over to Glasgow to watch a game was probably a lot to expect from my mum and dad.

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

That's the biggest struggle in Norway. Most of the money doesn't go to tennis.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?

Out of all the contracts that were out there, the better one for me was from the Reds. Not talking about money - putting that aside. It was a lot of development opportunities.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Put all of your savings on autopilot, and you won't likely notice the missing cash.

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

When you start dictating culture, money gets involved and people take notice.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

This is a wrong notion that I work in big budget films. Infact, usually low budget films are offered to me, they come and say it's a good story but they don't have the money.

I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

Nowadays, it's not more about the sport; it's about the business. All the boxers became businessmen, not boxers. They look just to get the money, not the glory.

A lot of young guys nowadays, when you start talking about guys wanting to get paid or what's best for them, they tend to think about themselves.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

If I hit the lotto, I would be nowhere near the road. But I got bills to pay.